It might seem like too many disparate parts, but in the book, Genevieve Cogman has brought a lot of ideas together to form a cohesive whole. She’s obviously a modern woman, but also fits in nicely in mid-1800s London. Talky Talk: Historical (For The Most Part)Īlthough much of The Invisible Library takes place in an alternate universe in which magic is familiar, paranormal creatures such as vampires, werewolves, and Fae coexist with humans, and technology is quite steampunky, Irene wishes more alternate worlds had mobile phones, and, in the Library, uses email on a computer. Irene is obviously physically attracted to Kai, but the fact that she’s his superior and the assignment is super important takes priority. … his hair was a shade of black that looked almost steely blue in the dim lights … His eyebrows were the same shade, like lines of ink on his face, and his cheekbones would have been used to cut diamonds, let alone cheese. Nobody got to spend time with people who looked like that outside the front pages of newspapers and glossy magazines. He had the sort of beauty that instantly shifted him from a possible romance object to an absolute impossibility. When she sets out on her Grimm mission (heh), she’s entrusted with the training of Kai, a librarian trainee. I don’t love the idea of not really having loved ones (the strange way the Library treats time causes problems with keeping in touch with friends/family on various worlds), but everyone’s gotta make sacrifices sometimes. Irene and I both share a love of books (obvs.), and having a job that took me to alternate universes-full of amazing and otherwise unfathomable sights and experiences-in search of the rarest of literature would be an absolute dream.
It isn’t the most normal mission from the start, but Irene soon realizes that this might be her most important one yet. Her latest assignment, to seek out a special set of Grimm’s fairy tales, takes her to a world in which vampires and werewolves are real, and the Ambassador from Lichtenstein is a Fae. She occasionally runs into trouble, but most often it’s as easy as buying a copy and returning to the Library. She’s visited worlds that are much like our own, and some that are as different as the most fantastical of novels. Thanks to the Library’s magic, Irene gets to travel to a myriad of alternate worlds in search of special books and will do so for centuries (or more).
Irene loves books, and so has dedicated her life-her very, very long life-to service of the Library, a mysterious place that exists out of time in the space between alternate universes and is committed to the preservation of unique literature from every world. This cover is appropriately simple and leather-looking, with just the right amount of ornamental flourish, for a book about a library. Talky Talk: Historical (For The Most Part)īonus Factors: Alternate Universes, Literary References
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